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The 29 pages that link to Mary Shelley, each with the reason it gives.

• RomanticismRelated: Her novel probes the dangers of creative ambition and the costs of social exclusion.

• Science fictionRelated: Frankenstein made scientific ambition and its human consequences central to a lasting narrative tradition.

• Horror fictionRelated: Her story makes creation, responsibility, and bodily reanimation sources of terror.

• Lord ByronRelated: She recorded the Swiss gathering where Byron proposed the ghost-story challenge that inspired Frankenstein.

• FrankensteinRelated: Her authorship and revisions shaped the novel’s changing meanings and editions.

• Paradise LostRelated: Frankenstein’s creature reads Milton’s poem as a guide to creation, exile, and rejection.

• PrometheusRelated: Her subtitle connects Prometheus’s gift of power with the dangers of human creation.

• Percy Bysshe ShelleyRelated: Their partnership shaped their writing lives, and she preserved and edited his work after his death.

• William GodwinRelated: Godwin’s daughter became a major novelist whose work grew within the family’s literary and political world.

• The Madwoman in the AtticRelated: The book examines how Shelley’s authorship and fiction engage inherited literary authority.

• ShapeshiftingRelated: Her novel made the manufactured body a major subject in stories of altered form.

• Speculative fictionRelated: Frankenstein joined imagined science to moral and social questions.

• A Vindication of the Rights of WomanRelated: Her life and writing kept Wollstonecraft’s legacy visible to later generations.

• Julia KristevaRelated: Kristeva discusses Frankenstein as a literary staging of maternal horror and abjection.

• Mount TamboraRelated: The cold, stormy summer after Tambora’s eruption formed the setting for Shelley’s writing holiday near Geneva.

• Year Without a SummerRelated: Shelley later recalled the gloomy weather of 1816 as part of the setting for Frankenstein’s conception.

• MonsterRelated: Shelley reshaped the monster through creation, responsibility, and social rejection.

• Prometheus BoundRelated: Her subtitle invokes the mythic figure whose gift to humanity carries danger and punishment.

• Edward Bulwer-LyttonRelated: Her speculative fiction provides an earlier point of comparison for Bulwer-Lytton’s imagined future society.

• Thomas Love PeacockRelated: Peacock belonged to the circle around Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley, linking him to their literary lives.

• Anne RiceRelated: Shelley’s sympathetic treatment of a feared supernatural being offers a literary precedent for Rice’s vampires.

• Romantic literatureRelated: Her fiction brings Romantic questions about creativity and individual responsibility into the novel.

• 19th centuryRelated: Her novel turned scientific ambition and its consequences into a lasting cultural question.

• History of science fictionRelated: Frankenstein became a foundational example of science-driven speculation in the novel.

• John William PolidoriRelated: She shared the Villa Diodati circle and its ghost-story challenge with Polidori.

• Mount Tambora eruptionRelated: The cold, stormy summer of 1816 at Lake Geneva shaped the ghost-story challenge that led to Frankenstein.